alias

Alias

[Latin, Otherwise called.] A term used to indicate that a person is known by more than one name.

Alias is a short and more popular phrase for alias dictus. The abbreviation a.k.a., also known as, is frequently used in connection with the description of a person sought by law enforcement officers to disclose the names that the person has been known to use. A fictitious name assumed by a person is popularly termed an alias.

alias

n. 1) a name used other the given name of a person or reference to that other name, which may not be an attempt to hide his/her identity (such as Harry for Harold, initials or a maiden name). (See: a.k.a.)

alias

‘another name’, particularly used to describe the use of another name by criminals. This practice makes it more difficult for them to be detected by the police. See AKA.

ALIAS, practice. This word is prefixed to the name of a second writ of the
same kind issued in the same cause; as, when a summons has been issued and
it is returned by the sheriff, nil, and another is issued, this is called an
alias summons. The term is used to all kinds of writs, as alias fi. fa.,
alias vend. exp. and the like. Alias dictus, otherwise called; a description
of the defendant by an addition to his real name of that by which he is
bound in the writing; or when a man is indicted and his name is uncertain,
he may be indicted as A B, alias dictus C D. See 4 John. 1118; 1 John. Cas.
243; 2 Caines, R. 362; 3 Caines, R. 219.

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